Goals of the consortium

The Leadership Consortium brings together organisations to help them accelerate and improve their leadership development, reducing their development costs and increasing their internal capabilities.

What the consortium provides.

The consortium provides five services to fulfill its stated goals:

• Fast track leadership development programme
• C5: the consortium coaching network
• Syndicated research
• Peer to peer learning and best practices
• Just in time coaching

 

1. Fast track leadership development: L2L2L

The leadership development module of the consortium is based on the leadership development programme: L2L2L (Learning To Learn To Lead). L2L2L works well at scale: any client who places fifty participants on the fast track development programme automatically becomes a green level member of the conosrtium.

2. C5: the cross-company coaching consortium capability.

C5 pairs off suitable coaches and coachees from across the consortium. Both coach and coachee are provided with training to help the relationship work. The coach benefits by building a core leadership skill in a low risk environment. The coachee benefits by having a practitioner peer who is able to relate to his/her circumstances without the risk of confiding to a coach within the organisation. The organisation benefits by building its coaching capabilities internally, reducing the cost and reliance on a cottage industry of external coaches with highly variable quality.

3.Syndicated research.

The Leadership Partnership is committed to keeping its members at the leading edge of management thinking and practice. The consortium will decide where to focus the research. Among the faculty we have worked with are the following:

• Dr.Nick Baylis, leader of the positive psychology movement at Cambridge University. He is conducting breakthrough research on how to sustain wellness. His work with professionals has consistently scored very highly with them: he is answering a problem they all struggle with under the intense pressures of their professional careers.
• Professor Venkat Rmaswamy of Michigan Business School who has created the ECC (Experience Co-Creation Model) which helps us understand how people actually learn and develop. It helps structure and frame our fast track leadership development.
• Professor Nigel NIcholson of London Business School who has helped research alternative perspective on leadership with indigenous tribes. This work highlights the importance of context in determining the nature of successful leadership.

 

4. Peer to peer learning.

We occasionally organise cross company events to enable peers to learn more from each other about common challenges. We will also use such events to provide alternative perspectives on these challenges: we have previously brought tribal leaders to share their experiences with us.

5. Just in time coaching

The output of the fast track leadership development (L2L2L) programme is a DVD with video vignettes of what does and does not work both in theory and in practice. This DVD provides an instant, any time any place practical coach to the most common challenges that leaders face.

Consortium membership

The consortium provides three levels of membership. The value of the fast track training will by itself pay for gold membership for anyone putting more than twenty people through the programme.

 

• §Full access to all five value streams
• §Up to fifty free participants in C5 coaching programme
• §Global support from MAC partnership for local needs
• §Unlimited access to on line web coach
• §Influence over focus of syndicated research

§Blue membership circle ($50k)

• §Fast track training for fifty people, one location
• §Up to fifteen free participants in C5 coaching network
• §Discounted access to syndicated research, web coach, seminars

§Green membership circle ($25k)

• §Fast track training in one location
• §Customised DVD of leadership practices in context
• §Proof of concept for membership at higher levels
• §Offset fees against higher level of membership

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 Doing well by doing good: the leadership consortium and CSR.

 The consortium is based on the principle that leaders learn from role models, different perspectives and experiences not from theory.

• §Not for profits bring a valuable fresh perspective on leadership
• §Leading with limited resources
• §Leading with unlimited ambition and need
• §Leading multiple, conflicting stakeholders

§Not for profits lack access to high quality Leadership and Management development and renewal. Both sides benefit from working together in the leadership consortium

§The consortium will be asked to nominate three not for profit organisations to become pro-bono members

§Teach First is a first pro-bono member of the consortium. It was set up to help top graduates become teachers of today and leaders of tomorrow. It has a strong leadership basis.

§The fast track leadership programme and research originated from pro bono work for Teach First (www.teachfirst.org.uk)

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